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Tiger Woods is disintegrating before our eyes. The gallery gasped this week as he butchered chips shots at the Farmer's Insurance Open. It was like watching Rembrandt forget how to paint or Emeril Lagasse burn a meal. Woods withdrew after 11 holes, and placed the blame squarely on his gluteus maximus muscles. "My glutes were shutting off," he explained. Isn't that what Shaquille O'Neal said when he could no longer touch the rim? Truth is, it's not the glutes that are the problem. It's Father Time. No human has ever beaten him, but some superstar athletes can't help trying. The bigger they were, the sadder it was watching them try to recapture...

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The high of an Atlantic Coast Conference championship still lingering. A tough opening-round struggle...

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Are you one of those who likes to spar over sports trivia? Then take this quiz and see how well you score with trivia about our Lehigh Valley-area athletes and teams.
The answers are at the end. No cheating.
1. Bethlehem's Steve Meilinger played for...

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In fact, Dawkins, former head coach of the Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs and the Lehigh-Carbon Community College men’s team, lives in the area.They have worked...

IRVINE, Calif. — If this year's Phillips 66 National Championships hold any enduring place in Michael Phelps' mind, he might remember them as a needed, albeit painful, slug of reality.
Until the past week, Phelps had treated his four-month comeback as...

UNCASVILLE — When his featherweight championship fight against Pat Curran was over, Patricio "Pitbull" Freire spit blood, climbed the cage and raised his arms."I knew I had won," Freire said, "because I had come close to finishing...

Ken Norton Sr., a former heavyweight boxing champion who defeated Muhammad Ali in 1973, then lost in the rematch later that year, died Wednesday at a hospital in Arizona where he had been undergoing rehabilitation since suffering a stroke last year,...

Ray Lewis, the face of the Ravens since he played in the franchise's first game in Memorial Stadium and arguably the greatest linebacker in NFL history, will make this year's playoff run his last.Lewis, who expects to return from a torn triceps for...